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Title:Self-Management of Long-Term Health Conditions : A Handbook for People with Chronic Disease: Revised & Updated Edition
Author:Kate Lorig RN DrPH, Halsted Holman MD, David Sobel MD, Diana Laurent MPH, Virginia Gonzalez MPH & Marian Minor RPT PhD
ISBN:1933503122 : 9781933503127
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:276
Weight: .726 Kg.
Published:Bull Publishing Company - January 2007
List Price: 12.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Coping with illness


This book is filled with hundreds of proven tips, helpful suggestions, and concrete strategies to deal with chronic illness, to manage emotions, and to live a productive life. Here you will find suggestions for setting goals, making decisions, and finding resources and support. It offers sound information about exercise, healthy eating, intimacy and sex, and communication with friends, family, and caregivers. There is also information on managing medications and an important new chapter on making treatment decisions. Originally based on a 5-year study conducted at Stanford University and modified in 2007 for the U.K., this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and people with chronic conditions all over the world. "Self-Management of Long-Term Health Conditions" has helped thousands of people with chronic illness to fulfil their greatest possible physical potential and to once again derive pleasure from life. Its simple goal is to help anyone with a chronic illness to live a productive, healthy life.

Origins of the Expert Patients Programme; How to Become an Expert Patient and Active Self-Manager; Becoming an Active Self-Manager; Finding Resources; Understanding and Managing Common Symptoms; Using Your Mind To Manage Symptoms; Exercising for Fun and Fitness; Exercising for Flexibility and Strength: Warm-Up Cool-Down; Exercising for Endurance: Aerobic Activities; Communicating; Sex and Intimacy; Making Your Wishes Known: Advance Directives for Health Care; Healthy Eating; Managing Your Medicines; Making Treatment Decisions; Planning for the Future: Fears and Reality; Helpful Hints.

"... a remarkable resource for anyone with any chronic health problem." -- Margo Harris, M.P.H., American Lung Association.